What are you drinking ?

[jt]

Ok, so What Are You Brewing was a hotty, as topics go.

Now I'm 15 pints into a keg I only filled on Tuesday and wondering if anyone else has a favourite at the moment ?

It's my second brown with US-Oh05 and it's better than the forst, maybe Ikept the temps down a bit during the scorcher we had in januray

[Stu McKinlay]

I was stoked when someone said Pot Kettle Black was like drinking a christmas tree... mad props Mr Pineedle.

[JoKing]

I just remembered another thing from the tasting - Steve was there: he used to brew there before, and he had a sample of my IIPA... and he said "It's good if you like hops"... But the worst part was after he'd had a sniff of the stuff - it bought on something like a hayfever reaction... The poor bastard is Allergic to hops! And he's drinking IIPA!

Thats dedication!

[Reviled]

Allergic to hops?!?!? OMG that would be horrible! Is that for real?

[JoKing]

Yeah - thats what he told me. He also told me that they accidentally hopped up their 1st batch of lager to about 2kg per hectoliter!!!

It was a hard case night - there were about 30 people there... 80% of them tui drinkers. We had soooooo many different beers. The whole thing was for Whitecliffs to find out what out of comecrial examples of beer, typical NZ drinkers were into. They are condidering different beers to expand their product line. Beers that I tried were:

Epic
Renaisance Perfection & Discovery
Leffe Radeuse
Hoegaarden
Green King IPA
Meantime (London) Chocolate Beer & Coffee Porter - this stuff was crazy
Founders Long Black
Moa Pilsner

Those were the ones that I identified - but there were quite a few more.

[Reviled]

Sounds like a top night! I had Green King IPA a few weeks back, was a pretty allright ordinary bitter ;oP haha

[David Wood]

Meantime coffee porter is amazing! Lucky lucky.

[JoKing]

It tasted like they had chucked some Kahlua in the bottle to prime it. Too sweet for me, but interesting all the same.

I wonder where they got it all from - you sure as hell cant get it in New Plymouth.

[Martin Bridges]

I was in Hops & Grapes in Ellerslie yesterday and he had some Meantime Coffee Porter, plus a load of other English stuff I've never seen here before (Adnams, Hook Norton etc.). Some horrendously lightstruck Daleside Old Legover on special, which I avoided like the plague.

[Sam Possenniskie (TGM)]

I popped in there for the first time myself a couple of weeks back and was impressed by what they had. But then the owner told me that the could no longer use the same supplier, so weren't sure if they could keep it up.

But along with the beerstore pruchases, the beer fridge is bulging at the moment...

[Stu McKinlay]

M&M Global brought them in last year. they were at rumble's here in Wellington for a while. I liked all the ones i tried (i heard the wheat was poor)... the 750ml Porter and IPA were certainly the standouts. The IPA was a real cracker... I do love good English hops.

[Ally Mcg]

A rare win at five-a-side (div 1 tho, we're not that shit) and a celebratory pint of Marchus Maximus - the new Emersons Brewers Reserve at Poms and now home for a Union Jack. Re-hydrating on beer is always a bad idea

[David Wood]

I found Marchus to be a bit unbalanced. I loved the big hops, but I didn't think there was much to counter them. Very crisp and refreshing though.